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04-07-2013 03:01 PM

Stu Jackson

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

Birds and their droppings is, as you can imagine, a recurring question. I humbly suggest you do a search on "birds" and related words, since this has been covered (sorry...) so many times before.

BoatUS website has a lot of discussions on this and they published a "whitepaper" (sorry, again...) on this many years ago and it is on their website.

We tried every conceivable method of keeping birds away and nothing worked. We finally gave up and covered all of the sunbrella with cheap plastic tarps to protect them. We had one bimini completely ruined. Chuck

04-05-2013 05:06 PM

jhgreen

cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

Thanks for the ideas i just got new blue sail covers because my green one were destroyed

04-05-2013 03:13 PM

rhr1956

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhgreen

I was hoping some knew a good way to cleanup after birds decided to roost on spreaders I have tried boat soap and a cleaning spray niether have worked to the standard i wanted still see the white marks on my blue deck
I was wonder what worked for others

Based where they seem to like to poop on my boat (my blue sail cover) I would recommend painting the deck white. It's the BLUE color they targeting!

04-05-2013 02:29 PM

tommays

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

I am installing a raw water wash-down pump as we speak as Northport is near a large Seabird nesting area and NOTHING STOPS them in season

Its mind boggling what they can do to a boat they really take a liking to

04-05-2013 01:39 PM

Faster

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimgo

I'm told plastic owls work well, but you need to move them around periodically or the birds learn that they aren't real.

Seen those fake owls covered in bird poop.... but sometimes they miss

Rubber snakes are also touted as effective, but I doubt they would deter a seagull at 30 feet...

I've seen a string full of CDrom discs hung above the sailcover to try to keep them clean too.. probably works for roosting but not air drops...

04-05-2013 01:23 PM

jimgo

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

I'm told plastic owls work well, but you need to move them around periodically or the birds learn that they aren't real.

04-05-2013 01:20 PM

Faster

Re: cleaning up after our fine feathered friends

Running some small SS seizing wire or monofilament between upper shroud(s) and mast a couple of inches above the spreaders should discourage the 'roosting' and reduce the cleaning requirement...

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